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Nikon has issued a press release about the recent sale of D3s & 14-24mm f/2.8G lenses to NASA - for use on the space shuttle & international space station. No special modifications will be made to these items.

Service Photo, Inc. was NASA's Nikon dealer of choice for a recent order. We proudly delivered Nikon D3s cameras & 14-24mm f/2.8G ED lenses - just last week, which will be used on the Space Shuttle & International Space Station!

For more info, check out the link:
http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/jpn/whatsnew/2009/1221_nasa_01.htm
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Burke Seim - owner
Service Photo, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
Contact us for everything Nikon!
 
Congrats. So how long does it take to get those made for NASA? Don't they have to use a special grease?

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Hello,

Apparently, no special grease - or anything else - necessary. I truly think that this is the reason that Nikon is promoting the sale & relationship - because no special modifications were made to their D3s body or 14-24mm lens. They were good enough already!

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Burke Seim - owner
Service Photo, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
 
Wow. Maybe Nikon changed the grease they use. Because the old grease would likely explode inside the space station or shuttle.
BurkeSeim said:
Hello,

Apparently, no special grease - or anything else - necessary. I truly think that this is the reason that Nikon is promoting the sale & relationship - because no special modifications were made to their D3s body or 14-24mm lens. They were good enough already!

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Thanks,
Burke Seim - owner
Service Photo, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
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Chris, Broussard, LA
 
This sounds like our investment in Nikon would benefit our grand grand children while they are space travelling. :D

Merry Christmas all!!
BurkeSeim said:
Hello,

Apparently, no special grease - or anything else - necessary. I truly think that this is the reason that Nikon is promoting the sale & relationship - because no special modifications were made to their D3s body or 14-24mm lens. They were good enough already!

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Thanks,
Burke Seim - owner
Service Photo, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
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bikinchris said:
Wow. Maybe Nikon changed the grease they use. Because the old grease would likely explode inside the space station or shuttle.
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If you have any real, further explanation about the old lubricant, please provide. I am quite curious as I'm sure others are. Several people here have mentioned the unsuitability of the old lubricant (which I don't doubt per se), but nobody has explained why it was unsuitable. Explode? Figuratively, as in separating and becoming messy under micrograv, or actual higher flammability under higher oxygen perhaps?? ... as I said in another thread, when I met Richard Garriott, I asked him what camera he took to the ISS for his photo project, and he told me it was a D3... he didn't say it was a modified D3, but I didn't ask... I certainly will if I get another chance to talk photo with him ever.

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From what I read in the press release the latest gear will be used on board the ISS and not for EVA. When the D2xs' were purchased, a group of them were built using Braycote grease - even the latest press release mentions those. Did some googling for the spreadsheet for the D2xs order but it looks like it's been taken down. From what I remember only a group of the bodies were built using Braycote.

Now if Nikon switched to Braycote for all D3s' that may explain why they list at $5199, Braycote is $169 for 10g and $2278 for a 1lb tub:

http://www.2spi.com/catalog/vac/b/braycote-600EF

I'm not a chemist or a physicist but from the typical properties link it looks like Braycote has a very wide temperature range and will not boil away in a vaccuum.

'07 solicitation: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=24939

xls link is dead....
 
The older bid specifications from Nikon required that the camera had a certain kind of lubricant. Apperently, when you combine the kind of lubricant that is normally used with nearly pure oxygen, it is very volatile.
Maybe Nikon has switche3d to another lubricant.
I will have to look back at old threads and or google the specs.

Okay, I found this about the D2XS bodies:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=24939

It mentions Braycote as the grease. Maybe these new cameras are going to stay grounded?
em_dee_aitch said:
bikinchris said:
Wow. Maybe Nikon changed the grease they use. Because the old grease would likely explode inside the space station or shuttle.
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If you have any real, further explanation about the old lubricant, please provide. I am quite curious as I'm sure others are. Several people here have mentioned the unsuitability of the old lubricant (which I don't doubt per se), but nobody has explained why it was unsuitable. Explode? Figuratively, as in separating and becoming messy under micrograv, or actual higher flammability under higher oxygen perhaps?? ... as I said in another thread, when I met Richard Garriott, I asked him what camera he took to the ISS for his photo project, and he told me it was a D3... he didn't say it was a modified D3, but I didn't ask... I certainly will if I get another chance to talk photo with him ever.

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David Hill
http://www.sfbayweddingphotographer.com
San Francisco, CA | Austin, TX
Certified Wedding Photography Junky™
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